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Towards the critique of violence /

In the past two and a half decades, Walter Benjamin's early essay 'Towards the Critique of Violence' (1921) has taken a central place in politico-philosophic debates. The complexity and perhaps even the occasional obscurity of Benjamin's text have undoubtedly contributed to the d...

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Detalles Bibliográficos
Clasificación:Libro Electrónico
Autores principales: Benjamin, Walter, 1892-1940 (Autor), Agamben, Giorgio (Autor)
Otros Autores: Moran, Brendan (Editor ), Salzani, Carlo, 1972- (Editor )
Formato: Electrónico eBook
Idioma:Inglés
Publicado: London : Bloomsbury Academic, 2015.
Colección:Bloomsbury studies in continental philosophy.
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Acceso en línea:Texto completo
Tabla de Contenidos:
  • FC; Half title; Bloomsbury Studies in Continental Philosophy; Title; Copyright; Contents; Abbreviations; Contributors; Introduction: On the Actuality of 'Critique of Violence'#Brendan Moran and Carlo Salzani; Part 1 Benjamin's Critique of Violence; 1 Techniques of Agreement, Diplomacy, Lying#Bettine Menke; 2 The Ambiguity of Ambiguity in Benjamin's 'Critique of Violence'#Alison Ross; 3 Benjamin's Niobe#Amir Ahmadi; 4 Nature, Decision and Muteness#Brendan Moran; 5 Variations of Fate#Antonia Birnbaum; Part 2 Agamben's Readings of Benjamin.
  • 6 From Benjamin's bloßes Leben to Agamben's Nuda Vita: A Genealogy#Carlo Salzani7 Agamben's Critique of Sacrificial Violence#J. Colin McQuillan; 8 Agamben, Benjamin and the Indifference of Violence#William Watkin; 9 Suchness and the Threshold between Possession and Violence#Paolo Bartoloni; 10 Violence Without Law? On Pure Violence as a Destituent Power#Thanos Zartaloudis; 11 The Anarchist Life we are Already Living: Benjamin and Agamben on Bare Life and the Resistance to Sovereignty; 12 Benjamin and Agamben on Kafka, Judaism and the Law#Vivian Liska.
  • 13 Expropriated Experience: Agamben Reading Benjamin, Reading Kant#Alex MurrayAppendix: On the Limits of Violence (1970)#Giorgio Agamben; Index.